Many representatives across the publishing fields describe the present editions of e-books as poorly designed and not fully exploring the new media potential. In 2015, The Reading School was initiated to encouraging a new experimental way of communication. With an open minded working environment we began to investigate of the act of reading – in this context ‘reading’ means reading text, images and our surroundings as well. Reading in our part of the world is often associated with the book as one unit, however in our investigation we’re focusing on new upcoming technology, in order to find different ways of mediate and re-mediate content.

The Reading School is a social platform to create workshops and talks, inviting the public to engage with these topics. Please feel free to contact us for further information or to initiate a collaboration.

“In the last three or four years, I’ve moved from focusing on becoming a better learner to spending more time learning how to unlearn. My conceptual eyeglasses limit my ability to understand something that is deeply different. And so in the age of discontinuity we have to be very much aware of how our own lenses create a form of tunnel vision. We must learn new strategies to overcome the tendency to interpret the world with narrowly construed assumptions even if they worked for us in the past. I guess this is a twenty-first century twist to what Dewey always claimed about the critical need for an educated public if a democracy is going to be effective.”

“This book is an original and fascinating look at the topos of the woman reader and its functioning in cultural debate between the accession of Queen Victoria and the First World War. The issue of women and reading – what they should read; what they should be protected from; how, what, and when they should read – was the focus of lively discussion in the nineteenth century in a wide range of media. Flint uses recent feminist analyses of how women read as a context for her detailed and readable study of these debates, exploring in a variety of texts – from magazines like Woman’s World and My Lady’s Novelette to works of literature like Jane Eyre and The Portrait of a Lady – the range of stereotypes and directives addressed to women readers, and their influence on the writing of fiction. She also looks at how women readers of all classes understood their own reading experiences.”